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In recent years research funders and policy makers have become increasingly concerned about research data - its collection, management, storage re-use and access requirements. There is high-level recognition that ‘data-driven science’ is likely to be critical in our response to the so-calledGrand Challenges. However, in practical terms this requires a substantial increase in technological capabilities and a huge shift in the culture of many research disciplines. In turn, there are profound implications for the supporting stakeholders of the research communication and dissemination industry (publishers, learned societies, universities, librarians, funders, start-ups).

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Working with both commercial and not-for-profit partners, we would be happy to work with you to gauge your needs and tailor the resulting work plans, outcomes and deliverables according to your audience, time-frame, budget or other key factors. We are well used to working in both commercial and academic environments – one of our core strengths is the ability to communicate a wide range of stakeholders’ needs and drivers across the spectrum.

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Earlier this week, I attended my first FuturePub event. Hosted by John Hammersley of Overleaf, it was a heady combination of pizza, drinks, lightning talks and lively networking. (Annoyingly, I had to run for my back-of-beyond train before I turned into a pumpkin, but I suspect that all of these activities were still ongoing as I sat on my train and started this write-up).

The process of compiling and submitting data papers to journals has long been a frustrating one to the minority of researchers that have tried. Fiona Murphy, part of a project team working to automate this process, outlines why publishing data papers is important and how open data can be of benefit to all stakeholders across scholarly communications and higher education.

Giving Researchers Credit for their Data – or ‘Data2Paper’ as we’re now more snappily calling it – is a cloud-based app which uses existing DataCite and ORCID-derived metadata to automate the process of compiling and submitting a data paper to a journal without the researcher having to leave the research space or wrestle directly with the journal’s submission system (an occasional source of frustration):

This is an excerpt from a blogpost published on the LSE Impact site in October 2016. Link to the full text is here.

I've written another blog post on the FORCE11 website on the Scholarly Commons and Decision Trees work. If you care about Open Science, diversity in research and scholarly communications and would like to comment on what we've done or just find out more, please click this link, and see you on the FORCE11 site or feel free to comment below.

"The scholarly commons is an agreement among researchers and other stakeholders in scholarly communication to make research open and participatory for anyone, anywhere. It is not another sharing platform, but a set of principles, concrete guidance to practice, and actions towards inclusivity of diverse perspectives from around the globe.